NPB Bullet Points (Dec 21, 2008)

by Patrick Newman (Dec 21, 2008)

Time to revive this series... Japanese articles only today

Waseda University pitcher Yuki Saito, thought be the first top Japanese amateur player to jump straight to MLB before Junichi Tazawa beat him to the punch, says that he wants to go to the majors by age 30.

Bidding has opened on Koji Mitsui,
and wraps up on December 23rd. Mitsui's agent says there are multiple
teams interested, but there's no indication of who that might be.